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Great Lakes Eliot Ness

Great Lakes Eliot Ness - Vienna

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 Percentile 
92
overall
Brewed by Great Lakes Brewing Company
Style: Vienna

Cleveland, Ohio USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
6863.6/5.03.59/5.06.2%100Lager glass
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Commercial Description:
Deep Amber red color, with a fragrant malt aroma. Flavorful notes of rich caramelized malt and noble hop flavors harmonize on the palate leading to a crisp clean finish. Named after one of Cleveland's most respected safety directors, who frequented the brewpub's bar during his tenure from 1935-1941 and, according to popular legend, was responsible for the bullet holes still evident today.
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 Fantomas23 (463), Pewaukee, Wisconsin, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/57/105/514/20
Mar 5, 2006  
And I thought it would be a real bummer to have Eliot Ness show up to a beer tasting, eleven brews in. Quite the contrary. An amber lager with a kind note of malty-sweetness. Untouchably refreshing. Drinking this is better than smashing a cart full of barrels. Unless of course, you’re Eliot Ness.


 gilvanblight (390), Windsor, Ontario, Canada
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/103/513/20
Mar 5, 2006  
Deep red pour, quickly fading head. Deep strong aroma. Cloudy to the point of being near opaque. Fruit and spice in the scent, sweet caramel notes. Very bitter for a lager. Licorice taste with caramel. Very weak aftertaste. Alcohol content suprised me as I didn’t note it in the taste and only noticed after.


 dkoonce (880), People’s Republic of Athens, Ohio, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/104/517/20
Mar 2, 2006  
This has always been one of my favorites. This beer pours a reddish dark amber with an aroma of hops. The body is full and the finish is long. Too bad I was driving or, I’d have had a second.


 OldRaspy (292), Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Feb 28, 2006  
Pour was a dark amber with a reddish tint and a off-white head. Aroma was caramel malt with a touch of hops in the background. The flavor is wonderful. The sweet caramel malts make this a medium bodied beer. The initial sweet flavor is followed by just enough bitter bite to let you know the hops are there. Leaves you craving more.


LutzBrau (43), iowa city, Iowa, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/517/20
Feb 28, 2006  
Malty bready aroma, perfectly clear dark amber color. Great mouthfeel for a lager and complex flavor. An above average dark lager with good hops balance, slightly sweet. my kind of beer!


 antzman (313), Clarksville, Indiana, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/515/20
Feb 24, 2006  
Bottle. Pours a deep amber with a medium head. The aroma is sweet, with hints of malt. The flavor has a nice balance of hops and caramel malts. Very smooth, clean finish. Excellent beer. Wish they could get distributed in Indiana again!


 TheBeerNinja (137), Durham, North Carolina, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/102/58/102/515/20
Feb 23, 2006  
Pours a deep brownish amber with a thick off-white head that fades down to swils of foam. Nose is sweet and malty. Flavor is a bit thick for a lager, but it’s still a lager. Rich and malty with some hop bitterness in the end. Nice and smooth. A beer junkies lager for sure.


 bfeldmann (1042), Wilmington, Delaware, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/104/514/20
Feb 17, 2006  
"Poured a dark orange with just a little cloudy, samll head and didn’t lace at all. Aroma was malty. Flavor was a little thin, almost watered down with the malts and breadyness in there."



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